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News: Government expenditure on healthcare has nearly tripled over the last decade to Rs. 3.85 lakh crore in 2022-23, while out-of-pocket spending by households on treatment has declined significantly, according to the National Health Accounts (NHA) estimates released by the Union Health Ministry .
About National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2022-23
- Released by: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
- Prepared by: The NHA 2022-23 is the 10th report on health expenditure estimates prepared by the National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat (NHATS), National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, using the System of Health Accounts (2011) framework.
- Key Highlights
- Health expenditure’s share in general government expenditure has increased from 78% to 4.89% between 2013-14 and 2022-23.
- Government Health Expenditure (GHE)
- Increases by threefold from ₹30 Lakh Crores to ₹3.85 Lakh Crores between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- An increase in the share of GHE in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- GHE as a share of the country’s GDP increased from 15% to 1.43% between 2013-14 and 2022-23.
- Government Health Expenditure as a share of Total Health Expenditure (THE) increases from 28.6% to 43.7% between 2013-14 and 2022-23.
- In per capita terms, GHE has increased nearly 7 times, from Rs. 1,042 to Rs. 2,786 between 2013-14 and 2022-23.
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE): The out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) share in total health expenditure (THE) has declined by 21%, from 2013-14 till date.
- The OOPE as a share of the THE has been calculated as 4% in 2022-23, as against 64.2% in 2013-14.
- Social Security Expenditure (SSE): Inter-temporal comparisons also reveal a positive trend in the growth of social security expenditure.
- Spending here increased substantially from 6% in 2013-14 to 9.9% in 2022–23.
- The share of private health insurance has also increased, from 4% to 9.2%, clearly indicating improved health-seeking behaviour due to awareness.
- Expenditure On Primary Health Care by Government has more than doubled from ₹0.5 Lakh Crores to ₹1.4 Lakh Crores between 2013-14 and 2022-23.
- During COVID Crisis: To address the emergency COVID pandemic situation, the government increased the health expenditure significantly to 1.84% of GDP in 2021-22 towards managing the pandemic situation given these additional spending by the government as a one-time measure, OOPE as a percentage of total health expenditure during this period also declined to 39.4%.
